Economics
Bad Sex in Fiction Award Won by Huston Novel ‘Infrared’
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Nancy Huston won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the U.K.’s “most dreaded literary prize,” for a steamy description of a threesome involving a photographer, her camera and her lover.
The passage, from Huston’s novel “Infrared,” last night defeated torrid scenes by writers including 2004 winner Tom Wolfe and Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC TV’s current-affairs show, Newsnight.